{"id":17364,"date":"2026-10-19T21:22:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/featured-members\/adah-parris\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T21:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:22:43","slug":"adah-parris","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/featured-members\/adah-parris\/","title":{"rendered":"Adah Parris"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"iit-editorial-member\" aria-label=\"Adah Parris featured member profile\">\n <header class=\"iit-mem-hero\"><p class=\"iit-fm-eyebrow\">THE INSTITUTE FORUM \u00b7 FEATURED MEMBERS<\/p><div class=\"iit-mem-hero-grid\">\n <div class=\"iit-mem-headline\"><h1>Adah Parris<\/h1><p class=\"iit-mem-role\">Artist \u00b7 Futurist \u00b7 Author<\/p><p class=\"iit-mem-lede\">What if the future of intelligence is as much about who we listen to as what machines can calculate?<\/p>\n <div class=\"iit-mem-actions\"><a class=\"iit-fm-button\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/messages\/?recipient=8\">MESSAGE ADAH \u2192<\/a><a class=\"iit-fm-secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/members\/adah\/\">VIEW MEMBER PROFILE \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n <\/div><figure class=\"iit-member-portrait\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/adahparris.com\/assets\/hero-portrait-BbT-RXyd.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Adah Parris professional image or selected-work visual\" \/><figcaption>Portrait from Adah Parris&#8217;s website<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/header>\n <div class=\"iit-mem-body-grid\"><div class=\"iit-mem-storylist\"><section class=\"iit-mem-story\"><h2>Biography<\/h2><p>Adah Parris works across art, technology, futures practice and leadership. Her work asks organisations to look beyond efficiency and technical capability toward relationships, power, embodied knowledge and the people excluded from dominant narratives. Her public practice combines keynote conversations, small-scale salons, creative experimentation and longer organisational residencies.<\/p><\/section><section class=\"iit-mem-story\"><h2>Philosophy &amp; approach<\/h2><p>Her approach begins with listening. In her work on AI ethics, a central question is not simply whether a system can be made to behave correctly, but who participated in defining the problem and whose experience remains outside the dataset. Through somatic AI practice, she invites people to attend to their responses before acting on a technological answer. She also brings a longer horizon into leadership through the question of what kind of ancestor one chooses to become.<\/p><\/section><section class=\"iit-mem-story\"><h2>Selected work &amp; current practice<\/h2><p>Parris is the author of Leadership Legacy, works on ethical futures and ecological questions, and has developed thequestion.earth, a project placing different modes of knowing into productive comparison. Her public website documents her speaking, salons, threshold sittings and futurist-in-residence work. She has been recognised on Computer Weekly&#8217;s Influential Women in UK Technology longlist.<\/p><\/section><\/div>\n <aside class=\"iit-mem-info\"><p class=\"iit-fm-eyebrow\">AT A GLANCE<\/p><h2>Main expertise<\/h2><p>Futures, AI ethics and the art of listening<\/p><h2>Location<\/h2><p>United Kingdom \u00b7 International practice<\/p><h2>Skills &amp; experience<\/h2><div class=\"iit-mem-chips\"><span>Futures strategy<\/span><span>AI ethics<\/span><span>Somatic AI<\/span><span>Keynotes and salons<\/span><span>Organisational inquiry<\/span><span>Creative leadership<\/span><\/div>\n <h2>Website &amp; channels<\/h2><div class=\"iit-mem-social\"><a href=\"https:\/\/adahparris.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Main website \u2197<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/adahparris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn \u2197<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/adahparris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram \u2197<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/adahparris.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Writing \u2197<\/a><\/div>\n <\/aside><\/div><section class=\"iit-mem-sources\"><h3>Selected references<\/h3><div><a href=\"https:\/\/adahparris.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Official website \u2197<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/adahparris.com\/research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Research and practice \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/section>\n <footer class=\"iit-mem-footer\"><p class=\"iit-fm-eyebrow\">THE INTERESTING PART BEGINS BETWEEN PEOPLE<\/p><h2>There may be a good conversation here.<\/h2><p>Explore Adah&#8217;s work or connect within the Institute Forum. Direct messaging follows the member&#8217;s own privacy and connection permissions.<\/p><a class=\"iit-fm-button\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/messages\/?recipient=8\">START A PRIVATE CONVERSATION \u2192<\/a><a class=\"iit-fm-secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/featured-members\/\">ALL FEATURED MEMBERS \u2192<\/a><\/footer>\n<\/article>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Futures, AI ethics and the art of listening<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":17363,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17364","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17364\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}